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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Deer Beside Tree CAS Card

Hi, Friends....

I am here with a CAS card for the MFP Stamp CAS challenge. We are supposed to make a fall-themed card and my card might seem more wintery...but the pink sky and the deer make me think of autumn. The tree doesn't have any leaves, so that means it is already fall....or, perhaps, "fell". :) (Hey, CAS cards are challenging enough for me without getting into semantics about whether this scene is late fall or winter! lol.... And, besides, the deciduous trees all look like this in Idaho in the late fall. That's my story and I am sticking to it!)

My image is from the Mark's Finest Papers - Crisp Winter stamp set. (I STILL maintain this is a late fall scene!!) It comes with a cathedral style frame, but I strategically inked just the deer and tree and left out the frame. (It might look too wintery, if I had put the frame in! Ha.) I used my Mini-MISTI so I could get this image inked thoroughly. It took two stampings to do it. I used VersaFine ink in Onyx Black and heat embossed it with clear powder.

My background is another from my watercolor marker refill extravaganza! :) That's where I "refilled" my watercolor markers in small jars of water and saved the leftover highly pigmented water for making watercolor backgrounds. (I know...I am insane!)

It was difficult for me not to do anything else to this card besides mount it on a black base. CAS really, really is not my natural style. But I like how this card turned out. Hope you do, too!!

Be sure to snag my 2016 Cat Lovers Hop badge for your blog. This year's hop is dedicated to my sweet Aliyah....the kitty that I just lost. Details about the hop will be coming.

23 comments:

Oh my goodness Janis, that background is gorgeous! The fact that it's one of your marker-water backgrounds (to use a technical term) makes it even better. This background is like one of those optical illusion pictures where the details change back and forth as you look at it. Sometimes the white areas are the trees, with a rosy sky, and sometimes pink area looks like thunderclouds approaching. Perfect CAS card, and great mini-MISTI stamping!

WOW What a awesome CAS card! Love your background ... thanks for inspiration once again Janis! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood’s ‘CLOSE TO NATURE’ challenge and please come back again soon! Darleneone of the 'Sistahs'The Sisterhood of CraftersDAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Please come for a visit!

I like your card very much! It's time to forget about what defines a "style" anyway and craft what you love! I think the colors are gorgeous and I like the deer! I'll mark the cat lovers hop down on the calendar! Meow!